LEA ELEMENTARY

As a close-knit primary school in LOVINGTON, New Mexico, LEA ELEMENTARY teaches 231 students from grade 1, run under LOVINGTON.

Within LOVINGTON, which oversees 10 schools and 3,397 students, LEA ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, LEA ELEMENTARY logs that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 14% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the resource side, On paper, LEA ELEMENTARY has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting LEA ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lea County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Lea County) reports that median household income runs about $68,015, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. LEA ELEMENTARY is one of 38 public schools in Lea County (combined enrollment of about 15,126 students).

The closest other public school is NEW HOPE ALTERNATIVE HIGH, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LEA ELEMENTARY has decreased 3%, going from 238 students in 2018 to 231 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 35% to 84%. Class-load math has widened: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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